Trump takes first swings at Warren after she enters 2020 fray

President Trump took his first swipe at Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., after she announced Monday she is taking a major step toward a 2020 White House bid. During an interview set to air in the final hours of New Years Eve on Fox News, the president made fun of Warren's claim to have Native American ancestry. "She did very badly in proving that she was of Indian heritage. That didn't work out too well. I think you have more than she does, and maybe I do too and I have nothing," he said to host Pete Hegseth, according to tweets from Fox News' White House correspondent Kevin Corke.

A Trump - supporting protester was arrested outside an Elizabeth Warren event after allegedly hitting an attendee with a selfie stick . Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) greets an overflow crowd outside of the Our Place Community Center before participating in a roundtable discussion on Jan. 5, 2019 in Storm

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday transformed a White House ceremony to honor Navajo veterans of World War II into a racially charged controversy, using the event as a platform to deride Senator Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas.”.

STORM LAKE, Iowa — A supporter of President Donald Trump was arrested after allegedly hitting another attendee with a selfie stick outside an event Saturday for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. The senator is on her first swing of Iowa as she explores a 2020 presidential bid.

As Warren mingled with the overflow crowd outside a roundtable event, witnesses told NBC News the Trump supporter unfurled a Trump banner and began yelling, which led to an altercation with other attendees. When one man tried to pull down the banner, witnesses said the Trump supporter struck the man on the head with a selfie stick.

Elizabeth Warren to make first Iowa trip this weekend

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will visit Iowa this weekend, making her first trip to the state that begins the Democratic presidential nominating process, days after taking a major step toward a 2020 run. require(["medianetNativeAdOnArticle"], function (medianetNativeAdOnArticle)
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren says President Donald Trump 's reference to his nickname for her -- "Pochahontas" -- at an event honoring Navajo veterans Monday was just a distraction from other issues.

Elizabeth Warren . She got a warm reception on Friday at McCoy’s, a bowling alley bar in spitting Trump , of course, has hit right back, frequently mocking Warren as “Pocahontas”, which she and Warren mostly stuck to the domestic issues for which she’s most known, delivering impassioned

The protester, whom police identified as a 58-year-old Minnesota native, was quickly handcuffed. He yelled "Trump 2020!" before being placed in the back of a police car and taken to the county jail.

"Police observed a person, who was in the overflow crowd outside of the facility, allegedly become very vocal while Senator Warren was outside greeting the attendees," the Storm Lake Police Department said in a statement, adding that he "became aggressive and attempted to assault others in the crowd."

He was was charged with disorderly conduct, a simple misdemeanor, and held on a $300 bond, the statement added.

Police said there were no injuries reported.

The incident occurred during the third stop of Warren's tour of the first-in-the-nation caucus state, where she has been greeted warmly by relatively large crowds for such an early stage of the race. Warren is one of the first major candidates to officially explore a presidential campaign.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Trump is what happens when 'corruption invades a system'

The Massachusetts lawmaker called the president an "accelerant" to a corrupt system in her interview on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show." The Democrat pushed back against Trump and the Republican party, arguing the government works in favor of the rich and well connected. Warren told Maddow that Trump is "what happens when corruption invades a system." "Donald Trump is an accelerant," Warren said. "He takes a problem that has just been growing and growing and growing and he just sets it off. And makes it worse than it ever was." Sen.

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She did face one pointed question earlier Saturday in Sioux City from a woman who asked why Warren gave "Donald Trump more fodder to be a bully" by taking a DNA test to prove she has distant Native American ancestors.

Trump and other Republicans have long made an issue of Warren's heritage, dubbing her "Pocahontas" and claiming she improperly benefited from affirmative action hiring in her previous job as a Harvard Law School professor.

"You know, I'm glad you asked that question. I genuinely am," Warren responded to the woman, clearly prepared for the question.

"My decision was, I'm just going to put it all out there," she said, while making it clear that she does not consider herself "a person of color" nor "a citizen of a tribe."

"I can't stop Donald Trump from what he's going to do. I can't stop him from hurling racial insults. I don't have the power to do that," Warren added. "But what I can do is I can be in this fight for all of our families. Because ultimately what 2020 is going to be about is not my family but the tens of millions of families across this country who just want a level playing field."

Trump mocks video of Warren with her husband.
President Trump on Sunday night mocked a video of Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) by saying the video would have been a "smash" if she filmed it in "Bighorn or Wounded Knee," a reference to her Native American heritage. Trump suggested that Warren's husband, who appears in the video, should have worn "full Indian garb." The president also renewed his use of his racially charged nickname for Warren: Poca hontas. "If Elizabeth Warren, often referred to by me as Pocahontas did this commercial from Bighorn or Wounded Knee instead of her kitchen, with her husband dressed in full Indian garb, it would have been a smash!" Trump tweeted.

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